Dr Geoff Walters
Senior Lecturer
Department of Management
Birkbeck University of London
United Kingdom
Biography
Geoff is a Senior Lecturer in Management and a Director of the Birkbeck Sport Business Centre. He began his academic career working for the Football Governance Research Centre at Birkbeck and was responsible for the annual State of the Game reports into governance of the football industry. During this period Geoff was awarded a three-year scholarship from the Economic and Social Research Council to work on a PhD researching corporate governance in the football industry, before being appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Management in January 2008.
Research Interest
Corporate governance in sport Board processes Organizational responses to corporate responsibility and sustainability The governance and management of social partnerships
Publications
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Tacon, R., and Walters, G (2016) Modernisation and governance in UK national governing bodies of sport: how modernisation influences the way board members perceive and enact their roles, International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 8 (3): 363-381
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Tacon, R., Walters, G., and Cornforth, C, (2017) Accountability in non-profit governance: A process-based study, Non-Profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 46 (4): 685-704
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Paramio-Salcines, J.L., Babiak, K., Walters, G (eds) (2013) The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Corporate Social Responsibility, London: Routledge
